Rodgers and Hammerstein

“Fearless” is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, due in part to the embedded (football) field recording of Liverpool Kop fans singing the Rodgers and Hammerstein composition “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. So I was enthralled by this On The Media story about a football fan who spent the last 5 years recording, collecting and archiving over 20,000 football chants.

The impulse to archive isn’t restricted to dying languages or ancient relics. Sometimes you archive something simply because you love it. Fanchants.co.uk is a repository of more than 20,000 soccer fan chants from all over the world. It started as a business and remains one – but it’s become a labor of love. Bob speaks with Michael Dennis, a co-founder of Fan Chants.